TEE NATIVE AGGRESSON AT, TARANAKI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5491, 23 June 1879, Page 5

TEE NATIVE AGGRESSON AT, TARANAKI.

THE SETTLERS BUNDLE THE MAORIS OFF. Hawera, Saturday. I have juat returned from inspection of the ploughing operations. The natives are very civil and jocular. They have finished operations for to-day on Livingstone's land. Additional ploughs will be at work to-morrow, probably at McLean's, also at Mokoia, between thi3 and Carlyle. Te Manui, the outlaw, is amongst the ploughmen. They are cool, daring fellows, and say they will plough in Hawera soon, and then take onr houses from us. Theyjb.ave.left their drays and ploughs on Livingstone's farm, which is now in a dreadful lness. Many settlers are fur taking the law into their own hands. Saturday evening. The settler are taking prompt action. . Tomorrow, at 12 o'clock, they will move the Maoris gently and firmly from Livingstone's lawn. Such impudence will not be brooked. If the Government cannot break Te jWhiti's mana, the settlers will do bo. The two teams with ploughs on Livingstone's land, are guarded by fifteen Maoris, and they are ploughing up the lawn in front of the house. The Maoris who returned frem Parihaka seem more infatuated with the supernatural assumption of Te Whiti than ever. They intend to push on ploughing operations in this district. The settlers may expect to hear any morning that ploughmen are in their paddocks. They need not be alarmed if they do so. They intend to use no force, and no white man will be harmed. All the Maoris who do not acknowledge the divine right of Te Whiti to rule, are outlawed. The settlers are not alarmed, but would like to see the movement stopped, or who shall say what it will lead to ? The Maoris have a bullock and plough at Kaupokonui, ready to proceed to work on a word from Parihaka. Te Whiti talks parables at the meeting, and then consults his leading men after. Ho does not act merely on his own judgment, but is guided in great measure by some of the cleverest men in New Zealand. The Maoris have got hold of the Supreme Court idea of .Sir George Grey, confusing him with the Governor. They say, the Governor says the most wo can do with them for ploughing the land, is to sue them for trespass, and the land is theirs, while we are interlopers.